surveillance in comment and analysis
Inbox: ID cards U-turn: The end is nigh?
Comment Great news and hopefully the beginning of the end for this crazy ID project.and for the government's other pointless, intrusive database and surveillance projects. The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most... [06 Jul 2009]
Beware - Big Brother is watching you get drunk
Comment This week's silicon.com inbox is bursting with comments around two related themes: surveillance and privacy. New powers are needed to combat a culture of "pervasive" surveillance that has seen the UK... [10 Feb 2009]
Inbox: Home Office hacking powers go too far
Comment Legal Eye: Does Home Office online surveillance go too far? The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. Regular silicon.com column the Legal... [23 Jan 2009]
Legal Eye: Does Home Office online surveillance go too far?
Comment The EU's proposed extension of what it acknowledges to be "intrusive surveillance" means law enforcement officers will be authorised to covertly gain remote access and monitor a suspect's computer usage provided it is... [21 Jan 2009]
Indian outsourcers shore up their defences
Comment In addition Syntel has enhanced security surveillance of all facilities and installed a redundant network infrastructure that splits critical operations across multiple locations. Saritha Rai reports from Bangalore. [10 Dec 2008]
Inbox: YouTube surveillance, skills gap, Naked speak
Comment Citizens are used to CCTV surveillance but a parliamentary group says that cameras are being turned on governments to keep them in line. Reverse surveillance - what a great idea. The weekly Inbox column... [11 Aug 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gets down to business, caught on camera, ID cards…
Comment ID cards: The "surveillance society" risk Readers were also busy commenting on the "ring of steel" automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) camera rollout in Manchester, while ID cards were a hot topic once again… [12 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tech skills slump, gov't snooping, Segway safety
Comment Also, the government's latest surveillance plans have had readers up in arms… and finally the recent calls by Lords to lift the Segway ban in Britain has divided readers… We have already gone too far in... [22 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com... dirty computers, lie detectors, T5 tech, mobile ASBOs
Comment This is yet another step towards the "trust free, surveillance society". Also, dirty NHS keyboards get an airing, benefit cheats hunted out with lie detectors and the T5 "tech not to blame" fiasco all attracted some... [15 May 2008]
Dear silicon.com...Illegal file-sharing, biometrics flying high, ID fines…
Comment Rather than introducing ever more stringent, expensive and intrusive surveillance, wouldn't it be better to spend a fraction of the money and ingenuity on trying to address the causes of our apparent "insecurity"? [28 Feb 2008]
Legal Eye: Is it wise to hit ISPs over file-sharing?
Comment Any legislation to enforce these proposals would require an inordinate level of potentially indiscriminate digital surveillance and policing from ISPs. Politicians are threatening ISPs with penalties if illegal... [22 Feb 2008]
Editor's Blog: ID cards - cock-up and conspiracy...
Comment Still, I couldn't resist the BBC's new politico-techno-conspiracy thriller - The Last Enemy - featuring ID cards, pervasive CCTV surveillance and gigantic databases. It's great that primetime TV wants to tackle subjects... [20 Feb 2008]
Whose data is it anyway?
Comment Dilemmas of Privacy and Surveillance: Challenges of Technological Change makes sober reading in the light of recent events but it also offers a series of sensible recommendations spanning systems design, risk analysis,... [17 Dec 2007]
On-demand software can help banks avoid fines
Comment But canny vendors have shown the regulator the depth of institutional surveillance they can achieve and thereby raised the bar all round. But they have no commercial reason for undertaking AML surveillance. [01 Nov 2007]
Can retail old dog learn new tricks?
Comment It's a simple notion to integrate these surveillance systems to provide quality data about what customers and staff are doing in stores, and not just in respect of security. Retail technology isn't exactly a green-field... [08 Oct 2007]
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